We performed a comparison between Apache Kafka and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, IBM, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Message Queue (MQ) Software."Kafka is scalable. It can manage a high volume of data from many sources."
"Apache Kafka's most valuable features include clustering and sharding...It is a pretty stable solution."
"This is a system for email and other small devices. There has been a relay of transactions continuously over the last two years it has been in production."
"valuable features relate to microservices architecture and working on KStream and KSQL DB as a microservices event bus."
"Excellent speeds for publishing messages faster."
"The use of Kafka's logging mechanism has been extremely beneficial for us, as it allows us to sequence messages, track pointers, and manage memory without having to create multiple copies."
"The high availability is valuable. It is robust, and we can rely on it for a huge amount of data."
"Kafka allows you to handle huge amounts of data and classify it into different categories. If you have huge amounts of data, Kafka is a very good solution for data classification."
"JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support."
"The solution could always add a few more features to enhance its usage."
"Some vendors don't offer extra features for monitoring."
"The support on Apache Kafka could be improved."
"We cannot apply all of our security requirements because it is hard to upload them."
"The solution can improve by having automation for developers. We have done many manual calculations and it has been difficult but if it was automated it would be much better."
"It's not possible to substitute IBM MQ with Apache Kafka because the JMS part is not very stable."
"Kafka is complex and there is a little bit of a learning curve."
"Kafka requires non-trivial expertise with DevOps to deploy in production at scale. The organization needs to understand ZooKeeper and Kafka and should consider using additional tools, such as MirrorMaker, so that the organization can survive an availability zone or a region going down."
"JBoss could add more automation."
Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 76 reviews while Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is ranked 12th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 1 review. Apache Kafka is rated 8.0, while Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Great access to multiple devices, with stability, at an affordable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS writes "It's scalable and easy to use, and we have local support here in Tunisia". Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ and Anypoint MQ, whereas Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is most compared with IBM MQ.
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